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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the couple stay in "First Night"?

2. Who is Clarence's telegram from?

3. Who is Tony in "Wrong Number"?

4. Where has the narrator just traveled from in "The Airport"?

5. What does the girl who came to Clarence's office transform herself into that night in "Be My Valentine"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author of "If You Were Here Right Now" tell her addressee?

2. Describe what happens to Mira before she marries her husband in "The Bachelorette Party".

3. What is the result of the narrator's night alone with Geren in "Sock It To Me"?

4. What happens to the narrator in "Sock It To Me" that changes her life?

5. What does the couple do in "First Night"?

6. What happens as result of the narrator and her boyfriend's first intimate experience in "The Seduction"?

7. What happens in "The Barbershop"?

8. What happens as a result of Rob and Amber's misdialed phone conversation in "Wrong Number"?

9. Describe the setting of "The Diary".

10. In "A Time For Change" what is Bridget upset with her husband Drake about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the couple in "The Seduction" to the couple in "The Flash Fantasy" and how they differ in the way their relationships evolve. What do both of these stories suggest Zane believes about the way relationships are formed?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss how the stories in"The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" parallel relationships in that they both progress gradually from mild and socially acceptable content to more extreme and less socially acceptable content. Consider the first story "First Night" in comparison to the last, "Apha Phi Fuckem- The Convention"

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast how both narrators in "The Bachelorette Party" and "Vacation of a Lifetime" justify their infidelities against their significant others. How do their reasons support Zane's idea that uninhibited women must fulfill their intimate desires?

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